CITE

    38 USC Sec. 6102                                            01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 38 - VETERANS' BENEFITS
    PART IV - GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
    CHAPTER 61 - PENAL AND FORFEITURE PROVISIONS

HEAD

    Sec. 6102. Fraudulent acceptance of payments

STATUTE

      (a) Any person entitled to monetary benefits under any of the
    laws administered by the Secretary whose right to payment thereof
    ceases upon the happening of any contingency, who thereafter
    fraudulently accepts any such payment, shall be fined in accordance
    with title 18, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
      (b) Whoever obtains or receives any money or check under any of
    the laws administered by the Secretary without being entitled to
    it, and with intent to defraud the United States or any beneficiary
    of the United States, shall be fined in accordance with title 18,
    or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

SOURCE

    (Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1239, Sec. 3502;
    renumbered Sec. 6102, Pub. L. 102-40, title IV, Sec. 402(b)(1), May
    7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238; Pub. L. 102-54, Sec. 14(d)(7), June 13,
    1991, 105 Stat. 286; Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(a)(1), Aug. 6, 1991,
    105 Stat. 403.)

AMENDMENTS

      1991 - Pub. L. 102-40 renumbered section 3502 of this title as
    this section.
      Pub. L. 102-83 substituted "administered by the Secretary" for
    "administered by the Veterans' Administration" in subsecs. (a) and
    (b).
      Pub. L. 102-54 amended section as in effect immediately before
    the enactment of Pub. L. 102-40 by substituting "in accordance with
    title 18" for "not more than $2,000" in subsecs. (a) and (b).